Miller Magazine Issue: 112 April 2019

44 NEWS APRIL 2019 Turkey, which remains at the top spot for years, carries out 50 percent of its flour export to Iraq. In 2018, the flour export to Iraq reached 1 million 633 thousand tons, meaning USD 531 million. Last year, we realized USD 1 billion 17 million flour export. Out of this, Iraq’s share is USD 531 million. Iraq is followed by Syria. Last year, we exported 360 thousand tons of flour worth USD 97,5 mil- lion to Syria. We realized 224 thou- sand tons of flour export to Ango- la, 188 thousand tons to Yemen, 100 thousand tons to Madagascar, 87 thousand tons to Somalia, and 84 thousand tons to Benin. In our flour exports, Mardin ranks the first with a share of 28 percent and USD 320 million. Mardin is followed by Istanbul, Gaziantep, Adana, and Samsun. Istanbul’s share is 23 percent while Gaziantep’s is 11 percent. 58 percent of Mardin’s export goes to Iraq.” TURKEY HOLDS THE FIRST SPOT FOR FEED PRODUCTION IN THE EU Ülkü Karakuş, Chairman of Turkish Feed Industrialists’